Saturday March 9th, 2002

NEWS
Aso Rock Considers Automatic Ticket for Governors | New IG Assumes Duty, Moves to Stop Strike | NEPA Needs N102bn to Provide Enough Power - Senate | FG to Revoke Land Allocations in FCT | Nigerian Wins Global Entrepreneur Award | Electoral bill 2002: House Names Harmonisation Team | Kuta Report Hearing Stalled | Bomb Experts Commence Detonations at Lagos Army Cantonment | FG Urges Agencies to Embrace IT | Warri: Police Slams Ban on Political Rallies | Army Tasked on Professionalism as New GOC Assumes Duty | House Holds Public Hearing on Mint Privatisation | 14 Die at Crusade Ground | Arrest Student Cultists or Get Sacked - Adesina Warns Rector | Military Rule, Enemy to Defence Sector - Danjuma |
STATE OF THE STATES
Austerity Measures Take Toll on the People | Performance, Not Aso Rock, Will Determine Re-election, Group Warns | Police Direct Hospitals to Treat Accident Victims | Policemen Drafted to Cross River Assembly as Leadership Crisis Escalates | Yobe Govt Slams Ban on Employment | Kebbi Govt Awards N218m Water Supply Scheme Contract | NCAA Moves to Introduce New Conditions on Air Fare | Abia Political Tussle Not Personal - Ugochukwu | NRC Boss Dragged to Court over Land |
COVER
Smith Had It Coming | Fall of a Top Cop | Still Waiting for Doomsday March 11 | Balogun: The Challenges Ahead | Why Smith Was Sacked |
CONTROVERSY
Politics of Oil Exploration in the North |
STYLE
most beautiful chineye | comeback linen |
TRIBUTE
Yar'Adua: Remembering The Bridge Builder |
SATURDAY PLUS
DHL: War of Workers and Management | divorce and your child | That the Prisons May Reform | ABC of 'Business' | An Importer's Game | Laying the Facts Bare |
COMMENT
A Man of Truth, Indeed! | The Hausa Apology for Idi-Araba Crisis |
DIPLOMATIC CHAT
In Austria Justice is for All - Envoy | No Easy Route to Pakistan |
LETTERS
Distress Call...080-???-????? | Savannah Bank and Other Issues |
ISSUES OF THE WEEK
CBN Vs SBN, How Does the Battle Go? |
POLITICS
Bakassi: Whose Land Is It? |
INTERVIEW
Sharia Has Failed in the North - Umar | Kwara's Coast Now Clear for PDP, Says Party Chairman |
CAMPAIGN
Fanta Enters Into Bonding With Teens | New CMCIN Holds Lecture | Prima Garnet Humanitarian Course Takes New Form |
SPORTXTRA
Aba Elephants Seek Filante's Flesh | A Festival Threatened | Crespo: Eagles Nemesis |
PROFILES OF THE WEEK
Agabi, Adelaja, Agunloye: A Triangular Affair | Obasanjo: Have the gods Spoken? |
BACKPAGE
Let's Take the Gamaliel Option |
SPECIAL REPORT
Na'Abba Vs El-Rufai: Sour Points of Privatisation | Twists and Turns of an Investigation |